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‘We'll take off from Albuquerque, and the object is to fly the farthest distance.’

‘That is, they had the javelin, they had the discus, and the winner was the person who threw the javelin or the discus the farthest distance.’

‘Yet, incredibly, this is not the furthest distance he has ever covered, having run 1,150 miles in 18 consecutive days some 20 years ago.’

‘He even beats the MP for Orkney and Shetland, Alistair Carmichael, who has to travel by plane between different islands and has the furthest distance to travel to Westminster.’

‘I have only run once in the last three weeks and the furthest distance I have ever covered is 8.3 miles, the last mile and a bit of which I had to walk.’

‘Kath plays with Blackburn Hockey Club once a week, but has taken to running five times a week, clocking up her furthest distance of 16 miles.’

‘Nathan Cohen can possibly claim he has come the furthest distance.’

‘Fly In, the furthest flights will win high value prices’

‘People will be asked to pay £1 to guess the furthest distance a balloon will travel over three weeks following the release.’

‘The Flyathon event, which starts at 2.30 pm, will invite people to throw their plane the furthest distance.’

‘The record for the furthest distance flown had been held by Brian Jones and Bertrand Piccard, who were the first pilots to circumnavigate the world, non-stop, in a balloon in 1999.’

‘On the water 16 countries will line up with Melbourne University Rowing Club from Australia having travelled the furthest distance to compete.’

‘Teams from schools across the country designed and built their own cars with the aim of attaining the furthest distance they could within six hours.’

‘Nicola Gunn and the Desolation Angels Company of Melbourne, Australia came the furthest distance to attend the Calgary fringe, and audiences were glad they did.’

‘The geography of Cumbria, appealing though it is to tourists and landscape painters, is not conducive to assembling a rugby team for midweek winter practice, though we salute the commitment of those who travel furthest.’

‘It is so easy to get around the farthest distances, thanks to their train and tram network that connects even the remotest suburbs with the City Loop.’

‘We talked about its weight, its price and the furthest distance he's gone in one flight.’

‘The person who guessed the furthest distance travelled by a balloon will win the opportunity to have a personalised message flown by plane over the house of whoever they choose.’

‘There is also a £10 prize for the person who finds and returns the balloon which is calculated to have travelled the furthest distance from the show.’

‘The Rawcliffe Primary School pupil learned to swim last Easter and it was the furthest distance she had ever tackled.’

‘The rules are simple - the plane that flies the furthest distance wins.’

1.2Extremely remote.

‘the farthest ends of the earth’

‘To fulfil his task, Enoch travels to the farthest extremes of the earth, encountering fantastic columns of fire and trees of judgment, seeing the storehouses of the winds and the mountains where thunder is kept.’

‘And then we go to the furthest extreme, and that is the other with the capital ‘O.’’

‘His rein stretches not only from the farthest reaches of outer space but deep into the personal lives of every man, woman, and child on the twelve colonized worlds.’

‘Such anti-realist, sometimes anti-content arguments have been taken to their furthest extreme in discussions of screen violence.’

‘How, if Christie wrote such rubbish, can we explain the fact that her works have resonated even at the farthest extremes of geography and history?’

‘Contained on this little slab of orange coloured vinyl are two absolute gems for those of you who like to push your adventurous listening to the furthest extremes of dissonance; once you hear it, you'll be hooked like a kid on a sugar rush.’

‘That is, all hydrogen atoms - whether here on Earth or in the farthest reaches of outer space - have only a single proton in their nucleus.’

‘Well, it's not difficult to get fizzy drinks to the furthest, you know, reaches of Africa.’

‘If he wanted to really challenge assimilationism, he should not have chosen as his target the furthest extremes of the movement.’

‘At the age of 16 he decided to get out of town in the most extreme way possible, and went to the furthest corner of the United States.’

‘The scientists who work with these tiniest of raw materials see a world just as mesmerizing as those who study the farthest reaches of outer space.’

‘I mean, this pushes the farthest extremes of dissent.’

‘At the furthest extreme of the preservationist end of the spectrum is what used to be called the appropriate technology movement and now is sometimes called the neo-Luddite movement.’

‘I'd chosen the seat next to the wall farthest from the windows and from where I sat, I had quite a bit of privacy.’

‘We let the Supreme Court make the final decision because they are the furthest removed from popular passions.’

‘I took the bed furthest from the door because I didn't want to make Kate walk any more than she had to.’

‘So we left, walking the furthest apart from each other ever.’

‘The center distance between the two shots farthest apart in the group determines the group size.’

‘That step could be identified as the enzyme that was farthest removed from equilibrium.’

‘The first papers to be removed should be those that are furthest away from the ‘toilet’.’

‘Lily pointed to the wall farthest from the window.’

‘There was a thin rope laying spread out on the floor by the wall furthest from my bed.’

‘Spotting a little lump on the bed furthest from his, he raised an eyebrow in surprise, and walked over, dropping his bag on the floor beside the door.’

‘They had picked the one that was farthest from the beds in efforts to avoid waking up the girls.’

2Over the greatest distance or area.

‘his group probably had farthest to ride’

‘Along with more than a dozen of her peers, Granholm strapped on a pedometer to see who walked the farthest during a 16-week period.’

‘We could get a bunch of competitors, give them each a crate of Elephant, and then see who could drive furthest from Front Street without having a crash.’

‘Islanders boast that the farthest any fish travels from sea to plate is 100 yards.’

‘The turn the shoulders must be the dominant move starting the downswing, because the shoulders were coiled much more than the hips and thus have the farthest to travel.’

‘The person whose balloon travels the farthest will win a luxury limousine and driver for a day.’

‘It's the furthest we travel to any venue but the price and the condition of the course make it worth while.’

‘He is a keen, regular cyclist, but the furthest he has ridden in a day to date has been 100 miles.’

‘A balloon for every child in the school was released on Tuesday and the owner of the balloon which travels the farthest will receive an art set and voucher.’

‘As we had no back-vehicle, it was a big challenge, as the furthest any of us had ridden before was the London to Brighton bike ride - none of us had ever done anything like this before, and we chose the hottest Summer in our lifetimes to do it!’

‘Special prizes will also be awarded to the youngest contestant, the contestant who traveled the farthest to attend, and the people's favorite.’

‘Dillard's 3d Platoon was in the lead because he had farthest to go to reach his old position.’

‘One band, Psyche, travelled the farthest to attend the festivities.’

2.1Used to indicate the most distant point reached in a specified direction.

‘it was the farthest north I had ever traveled’

‘Afterwards he sailed on to reach 68° south, which was at the time the furthest southern latitude attained by any sailing trip, before having to turn back.’

‘If St John's Wood is the furthest north he'll go, then we've no chance.’

‘The furthest north a southern right had been sighted was Hervey Bay, on the central Queensland coast, but Mr Harrison said they would be sighted further and further north as their numbers grew.’

‘These are two homes that are - you can see one of them, the furthest one to the north, is starting to get fully involved.’

‘You pick those clones that stick to the probe, and analyze them to see which extends furthest in the direction you want to go.’

‘Bend your right knee and lean forward from your hips as you extend your left arm behind you and reach your right hand forward to touch the cone farthest to your left.’

‘HM ships Example, Explorer and Archer sailed the furthest West when they reached Howth, Cork and Galway in the Republic of Ireland.’

‘The George Washington chapter, founded in the early 1960s, was the farthest north the fraternity ever reached.’

‘The dukedom furthest to the north was Northfield, famous for its horses.’

‘The division rear area was the farthest forward the MASH or the CSH could be deployed.’

‘At the very moment we'd reached the point furthest from home, the sky opened and heaven dropped on us, a drop at a time.’

‘Another in 1853 spread to Chicago and St. Louis where itinerant railroad workers took it to Iowa City, which is the furthest the railroad had reached.’

‘That's the furthest north I've ever been, but I couldn't stay up there too long.’

‘Knockhill is actually the furthest north the BTCC goes but according to Batchelor it could have been worse.’

‘It was the furthest we had gone from our area and we got a really good reaction.’

‘The summer solstice on June 21 marks the first day of astronomical summer in the northern hemisphere, and is the time when the sun rises and sets furthest north and casts the shortest shadow at midday.’

‘He walks to the furthest point he reached yesterday, then begins, striding past the small, neat houses with their frosty lawns.’

‘That would probably explain why the furthest I've ever gotten with a guy was a slow dance… the literal kind.’

‘We were heading down the classic 13 kilometre ‘Derby’ run to Küblis, the furthest of the traditional villages reached by these long, celebrated ski routes.’

2.2To the most extreme or advanced point.

‘countries where industrialization had gone furthest’

‘the farthest he'll go is to admit a sort of resentment’

‘In 1614 Bacon started to write a book about an imagined society that had reached the furthest imaginable point in the advancement of knowledge.’

‘He maintains that Hong Kong, Singapore, and Taiwan are already virtual states and that among major developed countries the United States has advanced the farthest.’

‘Such forms of cooperation commonly take place among the developed OECD countries but it is the members of the European Union that have gone farthest in that direction.’

‘You have made it the farthest of any who have tried for the Amulets, let's see if you make this last test.’

‘They may have come back the farthest this season because it looked as if their careers might be over.’

‘Israel, Turkey, and the states of North Africa are furthest along this path.’

‘He said that the furthest the courts had gone in the specific area of giving advice to employees in connection with their pension rights was in Scally itself which provided no support for the complainant's case.’

‘I currently have it all written into a notebook and it is the farthest I have ever gotten on an individual project, so I really think I'm going to make it to the very end of this without fizzling out.’

‘What is clear from her book is that southern towns and cities went furthest in the direction of a tax-supported professional patrol.’

‘Perhaps it was only a tactic, but it was the furthest a nationalist hand had ever reached out towards acceptance of the Six Counties as a political entity.’

‘Of the three, Globe has come the farthest, with a revitalized main street, arts center, archaeological park, and some of the best Mexican food in the state.’

‘Which of the fighters has come the farthest the fastest in attitude and technique?’

Usage

On the differences between farthest and furthest, see farther

Phrases

at the farthest

At the greatest distance; at most.

‘the Allied line had been pushed forward, at the farthest, about one mile’